Talk:Ranch to Market Road 187/GA1

GA Review

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Reviewer: Dough4872 (talk · contribs) 03:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

GA review (see here for criteria)

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1. It is reasonably well written.

   a (prose): b (MoS):

   • You do not need to use "then" in the route description to describe the progression of the route.
   • The sentence "RM 187 continues north through the rolling South Texas grasslands for nearly 3.5 miles (5.6 km), before turning in a northeast direction, then, after about two miles (3.2 km), turns back to a northerly route." is very choppy and wordy and may need to be split. I would also suggest changing "the rolling South Texas grasslands" to "rolling grasslands" as you have already mentioned this road is in South Texas.
   • The sentence "The highway then continues through a relatively unpopulated area of grassland and hills,[3][4] before passing, and giving access to the K Bar Ranch Airport" sounds awkward and needs to be reworded.
   • The sentence "The highway then, after a few miles, crosses the Frio River, and proceeds past the Waresville cemetery, giving access to the cemetery, the Links of Utopia Golf Course, and the Utopia on the River Airport, before passing through the village of Utopia." is very long and choppy. I would suggest reworded to "A few miles later, the highway crosses the Frio River and proceeds past the Waresville cemetery, the Links of Utopia Golf Course, and the Utopia on the River Airport, before passing through the village of Utopia.
   • A lot of sentences in the history begin with "On Month Day, Year". Try varying the sentence structure.
   • You also use "extended" a lot in the history, try finding other words to use.
   • You need to use {{convert}} to convert mileage measurements to kilometers throughout the article.
   • The sentence "On June 2, 1967, a large portion of FM 2257 was redesignated to RM 187, bringing the route to its southern terminus US 57, adding approximately 5.0 miles, totaling to 81.9" is long and choppy. Also, "totaling to 81.9" needs a unit.

2. It is factually accurate and verifiable.

   a (references): b (citations to reliable sources): c (OR):

3. It is broad in its coverage.

   a (major aspects): b (focused):

   • In the lead, can some more descriptive information about the road be added, such as towns the road passes through and roads that it intersects?
   • Can the lead be reorganized to summarize the description of the route first then describe the history?
   • I would suggest moving the information about the movie filming to the history and getting rid of the subheaders in the route description.
   • "On July 15, 1949, the highway was again extended southward, adding 6.7 miles to the route.", where was the highway extended to?

4. It follows the neutral point of view policy.

   Fair representation without bias:

5. It is stable.

   No edit wars, etc.:

6. It is illustrated by images, where possible and appropriate.

   a (images are tagged and non-free images have fair use rationales): b (appropriate use with suitable captions):

7. Overall:

   Pass/Fail:

I will put the article on hold for fixes to be made. Dough4872 03:49, 13 March 2012 (UTC)

The date format in the history should still be "Month Day, Year", my concern was that all the sentences began with "on Month Day, Year". The sentences should be rearranged to describe the dates in other parts of the sentence. Also do not refer to April 1 as April Fool's Day. The headers "Batesville to Utopia" and "Utopia to northern terminus" still need to be removed from the route description. There are still several instances of "then" that are used in the route description to describe the progress of the route. Dough4872 00:10, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

I went through the article and made some copyedits. I am now ready to pass the article. Congratulations on your first GA! Dough4872 16:57, 14 March 2012 (UTC)

Just a note to the nominator and the reviewer, I found matching imagery for two photos that were in this article on Google Street View, and Google copyrights that imagery. The photos have been tagged for deletion on Commons and removed from this article. They were obvious photographs of the Google Street View imagery on a computer screen. (I could see reflections in the sky on the one photo that looked like furniture.) Imzadi 1979 → 18:16, 14 March 2012 (UTC)